BRUSSELS CALLS ON EU MEMBER STATES TO DETECT AND DECLARE MORE EU FRAUD
July 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accused six European Union (EU) member states of failing to detect enough fraud in EU spending programmes where their governments have a significant management role. In its latest annual report on the ‘Protection of the European Union’s financial interests - Fight against fraud 2015’, the Commission said Austria, Britain and Finland had reported “a very low number of fraudulent irregularities, in particular in relation to the amount of frauds allocated to them” for EU agricultural spending. For Austria in 2015, this ...
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